Wrap up: Florida veterinary hospital became 8th hospital to offer TEER procedure, and other news

Happy Friday dvm360 readers! Did you know that there is one week left to nominate your veterinary hero for dvm360’s 5th annual Veterinary Heroes Awards? Each year, dvm360 invites the veterinary community to nominate the veterinary professionals that go above and beyond for patients, clients, and fellow professionals each and every day. Whether that is a client service representative or a surgeon, everyone in the clinic plays a crucial role in patient and client care, and we want to honor them! You can learn more about our Vet Heroes, check out past winners, and nominate your hero here today!

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Once you finish nominating your hero, here is what you can find on dvm360.com from this week:

• In this video with dvm360, Joya Griffin, DVM, DACVD, star of the National Geographic Wild television series Pop Goes the Vet with Dr Joya, shares the importance of conducting diagnostic diet trials for feline and canine patients with nonseasonal pruritus.
• A BluePearl Pet Hospital located in Tampa, Florida, became the 8th veterinary hospital in the United States to offer patients the transcatheter edge-to-edge repair, a minimally invasive beating-heart intervention for treating severe mitral regurgitation.
• POP Biotechnologies, a biopharmaceutical company, announced that its potential vaccine for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza demonstrated 100% protection in a preclinical trial, and has been developed for potential use in veterinary and human medicine.
• On this week’s episode of The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360, Jill Clark, DVM, founder and chief visionary officer, IGNITE Veterinary Solutions, joins our host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA to discuss why there needs to be more evidence-based continuing education for client service representatives.
• This week, dvm360 celebrated National Veterinary Receptionist Week by highlighting the hard work CSRs do daily, and how to thank them, with dvm360’s Strategic Alliance Partner IGNITE Veterinary Solutions. You can check out all of their submitted work here and on dvm360’s social media.
• The 2025 State of Online Veterinary Care Report recently published that 129 million Americans live in a “vet desert,” or an area with extremely limited access to veterinary care based on number of households, pets, veterinary employees, language barriers, access to a vehicle, per capita income, and poverty levels.
• And more!